How to format your references using the Heart and Vessels citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Heart and Vessels. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Norell MA (2011) Paleontology. Fossilized feathers. Science 333:1590–1591

A journal article with 2 authors

Rappuoli R, Aderem A (2011) A 2020 vision for vaccines against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. Nature 473:463–469

A journal article with 3 authors

Srisonphan S, Kim M, Kim HK (2014) Space charge neutralization by electron-transparent suspended graphene. Sci Rep 4:3764

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Navarro P, Chambers I, Karwacki-Neisius V, et al (2008) Molecular coupling of Xist regulation and pluripotency. Science 321:1693–1695

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

McCurley L (2016) Professional Rope Access. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Tse PW, Mathew J, Wong K, et al (2015) Engineering Asset Management - Systems, Professional Practices and Certification: Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2013) & the 3rd International Conference on Utility Management & Safety (ICUMAS). Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Hanke J (2013) Quadratic Forms and Automorphic Forms. In: Alladi K, Bhargava M, Savitt D, Tiep PH (eds) Quadratic and Higher Degree Forms. Springer, New York, NY, pp 109–168

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Heart and Vessels.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2017) NASA Snaps Image Of Saturn’s Other Death Star Moon. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-snaps-image-of-saturns-other-death-star-moon/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1989) Airline Competition: DOT’s Implementation of Airline Regulatory Authority. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Cook AE (2010) Gas hydrate-filled fracture reservoirs on continental margins. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Walsh MW (2012) New Pension Rules Seek Disclosure. New York Times B1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Heart and Vessels
Abbreviation	Heart Vessels
ISSN (print)	0910-8327
ISSN (online)	1615-2573
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine